Mother Goose, Mother Jones, Mommie Dearest
Subtitle: biblical mothers and their children
By: edited by Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan and Tina Pippin.
Contributors: Kirk-Duggan, Cheryl A.; Pippin, Tina, 1956-
Series: Society of Biblical Literature Semeia studies -- no. 61
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004169272
Subjects: Mothers in the Bible; Motherhood in popular culture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Mother Goose, Mother Jones, Mommy Dearest : mother-daughter, mother-son relationships in the Bible / Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan and Tina Pippin; title: For God's sake, mommy, help! : the mother-daughter dyad in Leviticus 18 and the biblical directive for equity in the family / Madeline McClenney-Sadler; title: Mother knows best : messianic surrogacy and sexploitation in Ruth / Wil Gafney; title: Sacrifice and the displacement of mothers in the book of Ruth and Coetzee's disgrace / Brian Britt; title: Of virtue and of eating shorts : breaking down the configuration of faithful mother and wayward son in Judges and the Simpsons / Frank M. Yamada; title: Mothering a leader : 1 Kings 1-2's portrayal of Bathsheba as model of relational and functional identities / Mignon R. Jacobs; title: Parturition (childbirth), pain, and piety : physicians and Genesis 3:16a / Linda S. Schering; title: Rethinking the "virtuous" woman (Proverbs 31) : a mother in need of holiday / Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan; title: Reading the religious romance : sexuality, spirituality, and motherhood in the Bible and today / Mark Roncace and Deborah Whitehead; title: Jesus and his mother : an analysis of their public relationship as a paradigm for African women (widows) who must circumvent traditional authority in order to thrive in society / Andrew M. Mbuvi; title: Jesus as fantasy mother / Tina Pippin; title: BMW : biblical mother working/wrecking, Black mother working/wrecking / Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder; title: Motherhood archetype : mothers of justice / Brenda Wallace; title: "Mother knows best" : the story of mother Paul revisited / Margaret Aymer; title: Responses; title: Learning to know about mothers who "know best" / Tat-siong Benny Liew; title: Reading mothers and motherhood by the godly standards of Scripture / Alison Jasper.